Minority Caucus Package
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Office Of Entrepreneurship. [HB-1709]
[Economic Development ]
[Film Production ]
[Funding ]
[Small Business ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Creates a program in partnership with the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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Relating To Use Of Force In Self-protection. [HB-1717]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Liability. [HB-1725]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Ensures that any mandated medical products are subject to standard liability.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Mandatory Recount Of Votes. [HB-1753]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Lowers the threshold for a mandatory recount of votes. Requires that a recount be conducted in a different method than the original vote.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Parental Rights. [HB-1715]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes the Ohana Bill of Rights for parents and legal guardians of minor children to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their minor child.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Family Leave. [HB-1713]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Election Integrity. [HB-1752]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Ethics ]
Requires that ballot signatures be verified by employees in the presence of at least two official observers.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Public Land Trust Revenues. [HB-1712]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Funding ]
[Native American Affairs ]
Requires that all moneys in the pro rata portion of the Public Land Trust be transferred to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Growth And Development In Sexuality Health Education Curriculum. [HB-1727]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requires that student health and sexuality health education programs include discussion of fetal growth and development. Outlines specific content to be included.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Leases. [HB-1710]
[Real Estate ]
Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Services For Firefighters. [HB-1720]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Provides cancer screening for full-time state firefighters every three years to cover twelve types of cancer. Appropriates funds exceeding the ceiling.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Election Ballots. [HB-1754]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Requires that post-election pre-certification audits rely on physical ballots.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Maui Wildfire Victims. [HB-1736]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Property Tax ]
Establishes a program to provide no interest and no fee loans for down payments to Maui wildfire victims who lost their homes in the wildfire. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the State general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Theft. [HB-1716]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Hawaiian Home Lands. [HB-1711]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Housing ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Real Estate ]
[Small Business ]
Allows designation of eligible homestead lots as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Provides state and local incentives to qualified businesses on homestead lots.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Mental Health. [HB-1718]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Proposing Amendments To Articles Ii, Iii, And Xvii Of The Constitution Of The State Of Hawaii To Provide For Initiative, Referendum, And Recall. [HB-1723]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Ethics ]
Adds new sections to the Hawaii Constitution. Allows for amendments by initiative to prevail and reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. Specifies a procedure for recall of elected officials and appointed justices and judges.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Transparency Of Elections. [HB-1751]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Requires election information to be publicly available either through website access or public records request.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Emergency Powers. [HB-1705]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Public Safety ]
Clarifies that emergency powers must comply with the Constitution and the needs of the circumstances. Specifies parameters for when a state of emergency is terminated and how proclamations may be extended. Requires a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature for a proclamation extension.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Government Transparency. [HB-1706]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study comparing other state's financial databases with Hawaii's current systems to assess the feasibility of adopting a single, more transparent and efficient statewide system. Appropriates funds exceeding the expenditure ceiling.